Newspaper newsrooms look a bit different these days. With the rise of the Internet and fall of print classified ads, newspapers are working to maintain their relevancy to readers and advertisers. Most, however, have yet to figure out exactly how to do that. To aid in the search for the newsroom of the future, meet NextNewsroom. The network was created to help The Chronicle, Duke University’s student newspaper, rethink its newsroom. However, the ideas being debated affect newsrooms across the

How are social networks and social network sites being used by researchers? Guest lecture in Hanson’s COM529 class. [Two addenda!] Not in the slides — but don’t forget email lists and blog posts/comments! Screen capture of Twhirl. Links from the presentation (and a couple that I may have forgotten!) CrowdStatus Gridjit GroupTweet LinkedIn Blog Online Journalism Blog PicoBuzz PollDaddy Quotably.com Snitter Summize.com/about TweetBurner TweetClouds TweetScan Twhirl Twitter.Alltop.com Twi

I spent Thursday and Friday at the NextNewsroom Conference at Duke University. Thanks to Chris O’Brien for coordinating a great discussion and helping college students attend. My interest in the conference stemmed from a previous interest in exploring the idea of a “virtual newsroom.” I wrote a little about this before. Due to some initial crazyness at the Gainesville airport, I was late to the show, so here are some links documenting what I missed: Greg Linch posted the highlights of Chris

Bill Densmore, who attended the Next Newsroom conference at Duke Unversity, provides this introduction to a video he shot at Duke: Randy Covington spent a career in print reportering and TV news management. Now he heads the IFRA Newsplex, a state-of-the-art training facility at the University of South Carolina. Covington says the users of the facility are mostly not U.S. news organizations. In this five-minute video interview with Bill Densmore of the Media Giraffe Project, he explains why. H

I was in a session at the Next Newsroom at Duke led by Kara Andrade about using social media technologies. Here is a four-step way to thinking about the way to determine what Social Media technology to use for a newsroom project. Often people pick the technology first. Andrade says that’s a bit backward. Here are the four questions in this order to ask: People —Who is the audience we want to reach in Northfield? How old, education etc? What tools do they have access to? Email, highspeed Broad